TsalagiAdoptee
@tsisqua.bsky.social
ᏣᏔᎩ Ꭿ ᎠᏰᎵ ᎨᎲᎢ, #decolonize, #landback, reunified pre-ICWA adoptee, anti plenary adoption, disabled by RX’d psychotropic, #prescribedharm, DSM=BS, PhD candidate, MSW
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Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 AM
There are many ways to help.
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Absentee Shawnee tribal leaders respond after citizens report harassment by ICE in Oklahoma.
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Absentee Shawnee tribal leaders respond after citizens report harassment by ICE
Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma leaders call on members to report encounters with federal agents.
www.news9.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Absentee Shawnee tribal leaders respond after citizens report harassment by ICE in Oklahoma.
www.news9.com/oklahoma-pol...
www.news9.com/oklahoma-pol...
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The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.
Oglala Sioux Tribe accuses federal authorities of treaty violation after four members detained by ICE
“Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are United States citizens. We are the first Americans.”
www.wjtv.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:05 AM
The Department of Homeland Security is refusing to release information on 3 detained Oglala Lakota tribal members who are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp for Native people, unless the tribe enters into an immigration agreement with ICE.
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"We want to say loud and clear that there's no such thing as a better colonizer.'
- Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, regarding a US takeover of Greenland.
- Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, regarding a US takeover of Greenland.
January 14, 2026 at 7:20 PM
"We want to say loud and clear that there's no such thing as a better colonizer.'
- Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, regarding a US takeover of Greenland.
- Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, regarding a US takeover of Greenland.
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The Oglala Sioux Tribe is still trying to locate four members kidnapped by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week, and many Native people in the Twin Cities have felt scared to leave the house to go to work or get groceries.
www.startribune.com/ice-detainin...
www.startribune.com/ice-detainin...
Tribal leaders say ICE is detaining American Indians during immigration sweeps
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is trying to locate four members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
www.startribune.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is still trying to locate four members kidnapped by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week, and many Native people in the Twin Cities have felt scared to leave the house to go to work or get groceries.
www.startribune.com/ice-detainin...
www.startribune.com/ice-detainin...
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As an Indigenous person, watching Trump make plans to invade an Indigenous territory is fucking terrifying. Everyone is making this about Denmark, but it will be Inuit facing this new wave of violent colonization.
January 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
As an Indigenous person, watching Trump make plans to invade an Indigenous territory is fucking terrifying. Everyone is making this about Denmark, but it will be Inuit facing this new wave of violent colonization.
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We are quite literally in the ‘carry your papers’ (Tribal card/CDIB) stage of fascism.
No human is illegal on stolen land!
No human is illegal on stolen land!
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
January 10, 2026 at 1:21 AM
We are quite literally in the ‘carry your papers’ (Tribal card/CDIB) stage of fascism.
No human is illegal on stolen land!
No human is illegal on stolen land!
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Nothing funny about a settler colonial nation threatening to invade an Indigenous People who have been "claimed" by a colonial nation. The ones who lose in this scenario are always going to be Indigenous.
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Nothing funny about a settler colonial nation threatening to invade an Indigenous People who have been "claimed" by a colonial nation. The ones who lose in this scenario are always going to be Indigenous.
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Yknow I’d like to say that the U.S. isn’t supposed to go around invading countries (and it’s not), but I’m a citizen of a Native Nation of THIS land, and this country is BORN of invasion. This is standard practice for this country, yall.
And yes, I’m still mad as hell about Venezuela.
And yes, I’m still mad as hell about Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Yknow I’d like to say that the U.S. isn’t supposed to go around invading countries (and it’s not), but I’m a citizen of a Native Nation of THIS land, and this country is BORN of invasion. This is standard practice for this country, yall.
And yes, I’m still mad as hell about Venezuela.
And yes, I’m still mad as hell about Venezuela.
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the right loves #adoption for all the reasons you would guess: an “alternative” to abortion; an alternative to social support for people in crisis; a general disregard for human rights; MONEY; profit-seeking from gross social & material inequality.
the problem is that liberals love adoption too.
the problem is that liberals love adoption too.
Look, we know this man has a deep and abiding interest in trafficking children.
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
the right loves #adoption for all the reasons you would guess: an “alternative” to abortion; an alternative to social support for people in crisis; a general disregard for human rights; MONEY; profit-seeking from gross social & material inequality.
the problem is that liberals love adoption too.
the problem is that liberals love adoption too.
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On Sunday Nov 9 @adopteesunited.bsky.social is having a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to reshape how adoption is represented online.
By updating adoption-related pages with accuracy and adoptee-centered language, we help the world see adoption through a fuller, more truthful lens.
Allies are also welcome!
By updating adoption-related pages with accuracy and adoptee-centered language, we help the world see adoption through a fuller, more truthful lens.
Allies are also welcome!
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, with Adoption Mosaic and Adoptees United
Join Adoptees United and Adoption Mosaic on November 9, 2025, to continue challenging and changing the dominant narrative of adoption.
adopteesunited.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
On Sunday Nov 9 @adopteesunited.bsky.social is having a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to reshape how adoption is represented online.
By updating adoption-related pages with accuracy and adoptee-centered language, we help the world see adoption through a fuller, more truthful lens.
Allies are also welcome!
By updating adoption-related pages with accuracy and adoptee-centered language, we help the world see adoption through a fuller, more truthful lens.
Allies are also welcome!
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National Adoption Awareness Month, which is about promoting #adoption, begins today. none of the promotional material contains an answer to the following naïve question:
why does “give this child a loving and safe home” require “erase and rewrite this child’s entire identity”?
why does “give this child a loving and safe home” require “erase and rewrite this child’s entire identity”?
November 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
National Adoption Awareness Month, which is about promoting #adoption, begins today. none of the promotional material contains an answer to the following naïve question:
why does “give this child a loving and safe home” require “erase and rewrite this child’s entire identity”?
why does “give this child a loving and safe home” require “erase and rewrite this child’s entire identity”?
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within 15 feet of each other: a display on Indigenous Stories and a display on National Adoption Month, which promotes #adoption.
entirely unaddressed: the story of adoption as an essential colonizer’s tactic of predation upon Indigenous communities in the name of Christianization & child welfare.📚
entirely unaddressed: the story of adoption as an essential colonizer’s tactic of predation upon Indigenous communities in the name of Christianization & child welfare.📚
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
within 15 feet of each other: a display on Indigenous Stories and a display on National Adoption Month, which promotes #adoption.
entirely unaddressed: the story of adoption as an essential colonizer’s tactic of predation upon Indigenous communities in the name of Christianization & child welfare.📚
entirely unaddressed: the story of adoption as an essential colonizer’s tactic of predation upon Indigenous communities in the name of Christianization & child welfare.📚
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A federal judge has sided with the Seneca Nation in a decades-long Thruway dispute with NY state. What comes next?
www.wgrz.com/article/news...
www.wgrz.com/article/news...
Federal judge rules New York lacked right to build Thruway on Seneca land
A federal judge just sided with the Seneca Nation in a decades-long Thruway dispute—but what comes next?
www.wgrz.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A federal judge has sided with the Seneca Nation in a decades-long Thruway dispute with NY state. What comes next?
www.wgrz.com/article/news...
www.wgrz.com/article/news...
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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
www.motherjones.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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🥚 Denmark has a shameful history of forcibly adopting out Indigenous (Inuit) infants for reasons of “parental incompetence.”
This Indigenous mother—an #adoptee herself—was declared incompetent on the grounds that…she was SA-ed by her adoptive dad and has trauma.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
This Indigenous mother—an #adoptee herself—was declared incompetent on the grounds that…she was SA-ed by her adoptive dad and has trauma.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ tests
Danish authorities take one-hour-old infant despite law banning the tests on people with Greenlandic backgrounds
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🥚 Denmark has a shameful history of forcibly adopting out Indigenous (Inuit) infants for reasons of “parental incompetence.”
This Indigenous mother—an #adoptee herself—was declared incompetent on the grounds that…she was SA-ed by her adoptive dad and has trauma.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
This Indigenous mother—an #adoptee herself—was declared incompetent on the grounds that…she was SA-ed by her adoptive dad and has trauma.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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👉"What masquerades as climate action often replicates colonial logics: militarised extraction, land grabs in Indigenous territories, and green technologies controlled by the same corporate and geopolitical elites responsible for the climate crisis."
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Reclaiming Energy, Reimagining Power: Building Energy Futures from Below
From the corridors of the Parliament down to the provincial governments, the shift from fossil fuels to renewables is being framed as both inevitable and immediate. Yet beneath the veneer of urgency a...
www.resilience.org
July 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
👉"What masquerades as climate action often replicates colonial logics: militarised extraction, land grabs in Indigenous territories, and green technologies controlled by the same corporate and geopolitical elites responsible for the climate crisis."
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
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Unless you look at the whole of US History then we're, as of this year, 249 years in....ya'll need to quit romanticizing pre- Trump years. Yes...it seems worse under Trump and it is really bad for ALL of us because he isn't smart, has no manners or tact but none of this new. This is America.
- war without congressional approval
- masked thugs abducting and deporting people without due process
- concentration camps on foreign soil
- US military deployed against protesters
- tariffs costing families thousands
- gutting healthcare for millions
… we’re only 152 days in
- masked thugs abducting and deporting people without due process
- concentration camps on foreign soil
- US military deployed against protesters
- tariffs costing families thousands
- gutting healthcare for millions
… we’re only 152 days in
June 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Unless you look at the whole of US History then we're, as of this year, 249 years in....ya'll need to quit romanticizing pre- Trump years. Yes...it seems worse under Trump and it is really bad for ALL of us because he isn't smart, has no manners or tact but none of this new. This is America.
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Treating everybody like Indians now.
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
June 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Treating everybody like Indians now.
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People keep being surprised by things Native folks told them about because they are committing testimonial injustice against Native folks
Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.
A surprise find in Michigan shows the extent of ancient Native American agriculture
Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.
n.pr
June 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
People keep being surprised by things Native folks told them about because they are committing testimonial injustice against Native folks
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California’s Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago
California’s Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago
Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.
www.seattletimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
California’s Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago
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Western Australia announces redress scheme for members of the Stolen Generations
Western Australia announces redress scheme for members of the Stolen Generations
Aboriginal people forcibly removed from families in WA will be eligible for payments in ‘major step in the pursuit of reconciliation and healing’
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May 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Western Australia announces redress scheme for members of the Stolen Generations
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😡Trump to approve land swap for Rio Tinto copper mine opposed by Native Americans. The planned copper mine at sacred Oak Flat will be one of the largest in the world. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Trump to approve land swap for Rio Tinto copper mine opposed by Native Americans
The Trump administration said on Thursday it would approve a land swap needed for Rio Tinto and BHP to build one of the world's largest copper mines, despite concerns from Native Americans that it would destroy a site of religious value.
www.reuters.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
😡Trump to approve land swap for Rio Tinto copper mine opposed by Native Americans. The planned copper mine at sacred Oak Flat will be one of the largest in the world. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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The US Army Corps of Engineers granted national energy emergency status for a #Line5 pipeline tunnel, fast-tracking a key federal permitting process for a project opposed by Indigenous Nations and environmental groups. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Trump emergency order will expedite permitting process for Enbridge Line 5 tunnel
Environmental groups decried the Army Corps' move as a reckless threat to the Great Lakes.
www.freep.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The US Army Corps of Engineers granted national energy emergency status for a #Line5 pipeline tunnel, fast-tracking a key federal permitting process for a project opposed by Indigenous Nations and environmental groups. www.freep.com/story/news/l...